November 30, 2015

Robert Lewis Dear, the terrorist who killed three and wounded nine at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, cannot be associated with specific anti-abortion groups at present. How are we then to answer the question of why shoot up and murder at Planned Parenthood?

Dear is being portrayed as a loner who lived without electricity; shot a neighbor’s dog, leered at women through bushes and wouldn’t look people in the eye. In Colorado he lived alone in a trailer and is reported to have little contact with people. The anti-abortion group that pickets and obstructs the PP clinic denies knowing or ever seeing him.

It is often the case that shooters like the ones in Minneapolis or Charleston, South Carolina are identified as relating to right wing militia or white supremacist organizations or websites. So far that is not reported for Dear so what is another explanation?

The implication for motivation in the PP shooting may be concerning in a different and in some ways even are more worrisome way. Dear is surely a bitter loner however there have been reports of his distributing material blaming Obama for ruining the nation and other reports of him speaking with hostility parroting extremest right wing positions.

In his supposed rambling statements after arrest and from witnesses at the scene he is reported to have said the his actions would end the selling of baby parts, a clear reflection of recent propaganda falsely characterizing PP activities. So if he wasn’t associated with known anti-abortion groups or sites where did he get his motivation and direction?

He got his inspiration and focus not from one place but from the poisonous and violent endless evil pouring our from Fox News, Republican candidates and the relentless and opportunist media war waged by so many right wing voices. This is the reality, the poison spewed out about women, race, false patriotism, Obamacare and all the other issues they are so fond of creates a world where losers like Robert Lewis Dear can find not meaning but an avenue for their just under the surface waiting to explode violence.

It is right wing propaganda and the evil atmosphere it creates killed the people in Colorado Springs as much as Robert Lewis Dear did. Poison creates violence, death and hatred.

November 25, 2015

Minneapolis and Chicago. One city where the cops stood by when white supremacists shot 5 at the camp of Black Lives Matter activists responding to the police killing of unarmed Jamar Clark and the other where the execution of Laquan McDonald by a known brutal cop was finally addressed after a year long cover up. The cop, Jason Van Dyke, was indicted for first degree murder hours before the release of the video showing the cold blooded execution of McDonald. McDonald is shown in the video walking away from the police when Van Dyke shot him 14 times in a few seconds. The shots came from more than 10 feet away and at no time did McDonald make any moves toward the police.

Minneapolis. White supremacists had been trolling for days at the Black Lives Matter encampment. A video of such scum had been posted on a 4chan site days before of 2 men in a car making racist insults and waving a weapon. The men in the video are known and yet nothing was done until one was arrested (and released) after the shooting. It is obvious from the video of two masked cowards and other postings on the site that there were numerous other white supremacists active in words and even deeds as it turned out.

The FBI has concluded that home grown white supremacists and neo-nazi types are the main threat of terrorism in this country. Yet all we hear about from candidates is how we should fear and prohibit refugees fleeing from war and famine. How many local or state police intelligence units are focused on the right wing terrorists? How much police action is directed at the gun carrying wanna be defenders of the white race? Minnesota had open carry madness but those carrying must have their permit on them. The police stop cars for driving while Black but they give a pass to armed terrorists. Some police no doubt are in cahoots with these evil doers but still the practice of live and let live hangs heavy around the necks of cops in the whole country.

Chicago: the execution of Laquan McDonald was captured on a CPD dashboard camera and showed clearly that McDonald was no threat and was brutally shot. The Chicago authorities knew this within hours of the murder and yet nothing but lies and denials were the order of the day for over a year! The police union, in spite of the evidence of the video, were complicit in the killing by stating the McDonald “lunged” at Van Dyke and the city went along. How about charging the head of the police union with aiding and abetting a murder with these lies? Within weeks of the murder the city paid the family 5.2 million dollars still claiming that McDonald was the culprit. Only after much effort to get the video released was action taken.

Police and white supremacists, an alliance or just business as usual, we will not know in-spite of the fact that there is smoke and smoke while fire is denied.

A new movement on campuses and communities is calling out the racism rampant in our country and we can count on violent resistance from fearful and cowardly forces who want to hang on to privilege and the past. They will not succeed but how many will die to defeat them will be tragic.

Stand with Black Lives Matter and demands for campus justice and expose police and fascist terrorists.